VISITING AMERICANS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 14

VISITING AMERICANS.

THE MALOLO'S CRUISE.

ARRIVAL TO-MORROW MORNING.

SIGHT-SEEING ARRANGEMENTS. Qno of the fastest and most luxurious liners yet, to enter the Wajtemata Harbour will be the. Matson Navigation Company's steamer Malolo, which is expected at Auckland at six o'clock to-morrow morning with a party of 350 Americantourists on. board. The cruisa of the vessel, which . has been arranged- by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, covers approximately 23.000 miles and provides for visits to 14 Pacific countries. After having been in • Australian waters since November 16 the Malolo left Sydney for Auckland on Wednesday. The- visiting party is headed by Mr. Charles C. Moore, a prominent Califorian business man, and Mr. Robert Newton Lynch, vice-president and manager of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and the remaining members of the party are all imbued with a sense of the desirability of establishing intimate industrial and commercial contacts betwee/i tho cities of the South Pacific and tho trade centres of tho United States. Entertainmont Programme. To provide adequate facilities to the visitors for acquiring as complete a knowledge of New Zealand as is possible in the short time at their disposal the Auckland Chamber of •' Commerco has taken steps to extend every courtesy to them and to give, opportunities for the' exchange of views and information. A party of representatives' from the chamber will board the Malolo on its arrival in tho stream and an information committee will be'in attendance for the benefit of the tourists.- ■ ' ■ The programme-of entertainment, which has been shortened by one day to give the party an extra day at Suva where special attractions arc being offered, will be commenced a few hours after the arrival of the steamer, which will berth on the west side of Queen's Wharf. The tourists will be divided into two parties, A and B, for the purpose of sight-seeing, i The. A' party will, leave for Rotorua by

special train at 8.55 a.m., arriving there at 3 p.m. The afternoon will be spent at Whakarewarewa and Fairy Springs.

An Interesting Steamer. The party will make the Six Lakes trip on Monday and will leave for Auckland at 1.10 <p.ni., reaching the city about 6.58 p.m. Tuesday will be spent in visiting the attractions in Auckland, on both sides of

| the harbour. For the B party the arrangements will be reversed, Auckland being visited to-morrow and the departure for Rotorua being" made on Monday morning. The arrangements are in the hands of the Tourist Department, and Mr. J. W. Clarke, nuAiager of the Auckland branch, who met the Malolo at Sydney to ensure that there should be no hitch, \?ill arrive with the party. .

The Malolo itself will doubtless be of great interest. to Aucklanders. The ship is 582 ft. long and although the number of 'the present party is limited there is room for 500 first-class passengers. "All the staterooms have twin beds with a telephone and reading lamp -at the head of each and automatic ventilation changes the air every three minutes.The public rooms on the vessel include a verandah cafe, library, soda fountain, two dance floors, a motion picture theatre, gymnasium, Pom'peiian plunge and beauty parlour. The cooking is done by electricity throughout and there are seven decks served by electric elevatois, .as well. as three promenade decks. Dijring. the trip from: Sydney lantern-slides and cinema films depicting-the scenic-beauties of New Zealand .vyete shown, in the. Malolo.'s picture theatre, under the direction of Mr. J. W. Clarke.